JAMB Increases Admission Quota For Nasarawa State University

Prof. Mohammed Akaro-Mainoma, the Vice-Chancellor, Nasarawa State University, Keffi, says the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), has increased the university’s admission quota from 4,000 to 5,000 students.

Akaro-Mainoma made this known on Friday in Keffi when members of the state’s House of Assembly Committee on Education, Science and Technology paid an oversight visit to the institution.

The vice-chancellor, represented by the Registrar of the institution, Alhaji Bala Ahmed, lauded JAMB for the gesture, and added that the move would address admission gap.

He commended the assembly for its continued support to the institution and gave assurance to continue to initiate good policies and programmes for lecturers and students.

“We are maintaining the act establishing the university that said that 80 per cent of every admission of the institution should be given to indigenes while 20 per cent should be for non-indigenes,” he said.

“We will continue to do our best to maintain standard and to ensure that the standard of education in this institution is improved.

“With your continued support, I hope and believe that the standard of education in this institution will improve.”

According to him, JAMB has increased the admission quota of the university from 4,000 to 5,000, so as to accommodate more students and it was based on the facilities on ground.

“I also want to commend Gov. Tanko Al-Makura for giving adequate attention to educational advancement and infrastructural development in this institution, and I call for its sustenance.

He also commended Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND) for keying into education projects that had direct bearing on the lives of the university community.

He said that special intervention from TETFUND had not only changed the physical structure of the university, but its academic activities.

Hon. Daniel Oga Ogazi (APC-Kokona East), the Chairman, House Committee on Education, Science and Technology said that the purpose of visit was to assess the budget performance of the institution.

He gave an assurance that the government was ready to address the institution’s challenges in order to improve on the standard of education in the state.